North American Missile Shield

[TRD2000]

Surely Though The People Advocating This Scheme Realise They Are Talking About Occupying Many Other Nations Airspace (or Above) With Weaponry?

And Surely Americans Could See How It Was Provocative And Threatening If Say North Korea Was Flying Weapons Over Them, Even If They Were Strictly Defensive.

Are These People Stupid? Can't They See The Double Standards?

[T4 Primera]

I don't think space is classified as terrtorial airspace.

Is there an international protocol on space etc? There probably is but Bush is not really one for international protocols is he.

Anyway, I'm not sure this shield includes space installations. If it was space based then why would they need other countries to participate?

[TRD2000]

i think you're right, it's not airspace, but i still can't see the states being happy with armed sattelites sailing over their heads... even if it IS out of their tecnical airspace. yet they expect every other country to be fine with it.

[Muscletang]

What if these satellites were in stationary orbit over the U.S. and didn't buzz over anybody else's head? Then nobody could really say anything about it because the satellites would be in U.S. airspace (if space is considered an extension of a country's airspace).

[TRD2000]

great. but geo-stationary orbits are only possible around the equator. Currently the US hasn't extended it's territory that far. so the satellites WILL go over other countries.

[dugie6551]

Even if this system does go into effect, does anyone (no matter where they live) feel safe when the recent test FAILED!!! If the US is trying to protect themselves then they should worry about how those terrorists managed to get onto 4 planes and crashed them into buildings. You can waste all the money you want on a system that MIGHT work, but until you stop that single person from walking into your backyard with a bomb. What's the point ?

Also, as I Canadian, what happens to the nuke and warhead when the US fires their missile at it, and it connects? Guess where it falls ... into my backyard. Why should I feel warm and fuzzy about that? The US is only looking out for themselves and is making it appear, politically, that Canada is protected as well.

To quote a famous clown "I don't think so, Homey don't play that !!"

[TRD2000]

that is the point. wouldn't the money/effort be better piled into something that actually combats terrorists... not provokes countries? wouldn't it be better to invest in new counterterrorist equipment, perhaps even improved intelligence because obviously that area is screwed.improved intelligence might even stop the US from attacking more countries based on lies, i mean "bad intelligence". the US intel services have been found wanting, there is a war on terror and what does george do? start the ball rolling on a pre-berlin wall cold war program designed to fight technology that terrorists don't have. perhaps if he addressed the actual problem and got back to this "war on terror" he declared rather than gradually throwing the whole world into alternate wars, he could prevent the risk of terrorist WMD's in the first place. Given the times, george is way off the mark.

[klone420]

When you say "disarming" do you mean that they are being destroyed or disassembled. And if there being disassembled where is the uranium/neptunium/plutonium being held.(Or did they find a way to speed up its half-life?)